Posts Tagged ‘best practices’

Q: What tips do you have for choosing the right report format to quickly access critical data? In most systems, setting up reports can be a daunting task that is often given to the IT Systems Administrator. In Salesforce®, anyone can go in and use the wizard to quickly and easily generate a report. That […]

I had a client ask me to give more advice on when to use a portal technology.  Obviously, a portal isn’t a fit for every single web site out there.  I typically look at four main categories: Content only or content heavy sites Mix of content and applications Some content and many applications stand-alone application […]

@ansmt tweeted about this and I found it interesting.  IBM has a Redpaper out about caching using IBM Portal and DataPower XC10.  Many may think of a portal as a vibrant community with lots of changing content, ratings, tags, and applications.  However, the reality is that most sites these days have some level of content […]

IBM has a YouTube of Wheaton Worldwide’s presentation and case study.  Their portal includes key content and a learning management system integrated to the portal.  But the new functionality really integrated their business functions into the portal.  That’s what I really like about this case study. Wheaton’s portal enables their business and uses the web […]

Every now and again either I, Mark Polly, or Jonathan Distad hit the topic of collaboration and whether there is value in collaboration tools or not.  I’ve heard plenty of detractors or at least those who question it.  (not necessarily a bad thing).  Anyway, Erin Eschen Moloney (@erine) pointed me to this article about what […]

Like many of you, we often wonder how good our two year portal roadmap really is at predicting the future.  Today, our Perficient project team and our client Mike in New York City happened upon the perfect way to double check our work…………………..

Lately IBM has been publishing videos on YouTube to help teach you about Web Experience Factory.  WEF is IBM’s rapid development tool for building multi-channel and multi-device applications. This the product formerly called Portlet Factory, but since it does so much more than build porltets, the name change reflects its real purpose – to build […]

Mark Polly recently posted an overview on SharePoint custom development with some interesting views from Forrester about the risks of custom development.  While I don’t completely disagree with what Forrester says, I think I’m a little less afraid of custom development than those at Forrester.  Here’s what I believe regarding custom development on any platform: […]

So I’ve worked on a large number of portal and collaboration projects.  Some of the biggest usability pain points I’ve seen had less to do with the UI and more to do with the process of setting the users up correctly so they can see all the content to which they are entitled. Let me […]

Microsoft ships SharePoint with a lot of out-of-the-box features.  However, no out-of-the-box portal is going to give you everything you want out-of-the-box.   So at some point in your implementation of SharePoint you are going to need to do some custom development.  Have you thought about your development strategies for SharePoint? If not, Forrester has […]

When somebody says “Healthcare Portal”, what does that mean to you?  Unfortunately the word portal has been used so broadly that it generally is confusing.  Here are examples of how the word portal is used in various contexts: In the new federal healthcare law, the government is mandating that a health exchange portal be created. […]

Rob Klopowitz and John Rymer recently released a report at Forrester titled SharePoint Adoption: Content and Collaboration is Just the Start. For this report the authors surveyed 510 IT professionals about their experiences with SharePoint.  There are some very interesting findings I will highlight below. The core values of SharePoint are: Managing unstructured content like […]